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They can sell foreign reserves in the central bank, dump the ruble, mobilise millions of men, sell land and other physical assets to China/Norks. A lot of this is ongoing anyway but they could accelerate it to get money faster while also making it completely transparent that they are out of money to fight the war.
The corollary of the Russian war machine being exhausted of expensive armoured vehicles is that it fights cheaper now at a much higher human cost to make advances. Which implies that the financial burden of the war is now cheaper in the short-term so Russia's assets and reserves may be spread more thinly over time in financing their war.
The conclusion of this is that Russia could plausibly still 'win' the war, if winning is defined as seizing Donetsk oblast or something limited like that, but will have utterly lost the peace by any definition because of the high human and financial cost incurred. Meanwhile Ukraine will have lost comparably far less and retained its independence whilst massively strengthening not only its military but also acquired a couple dozen allies which are, only now after years of war, also rapidly strengthening their military capabilities.
